Sam Brown (1)

It takes a lot for me to admit to getting choked up over a book. I almost start crying every freaking time I read this freaking thing. How do stick figures and disconnected narratives do this to me? This could be a powerful weapon one day, a powerful powerful weapon.

This book is about a boy who have always dreamed of becoming a robot or at least having a robot for a friend. Finally one day a giant robot comes to be the boy's friend. Throughout the book the boy is someone disappointed because his robot friend can't do everything that he thought he could do. In the end the robot is able to help the boy build his tree house. This story was fantasy because the author entered the characters into a different world.

A boy and his robot BFFs. A good message delivered with a light touch.

a short picture book with simple, beautiful drawings and thick, bittersweet emotion. most pages have one line of text. images are computer-drawn not hand-drawn.